About Philip Trevelyan

Philip Trevelyan

Born in London in 1943. Son of Julian Trevelyan, painter. Home in Newhaven, Sussex.

“In 1970 I approached Jimmy Vaughan with plans for The Moon And The Sledgehammer. I knew him already as the distributor of my previous film along with a personal choice of under-ground and experimental films. It was thanks to his initiative as a financier and producer that The Moon And The Sledge-hammer was able to go into production.”

The film took over a year to complete, and was subject not only to the strains and stresses of an emerging production company, but to considerable differences of opinion between Vaughan and myself.

It may still be possible, thanks to the calm engineering of the editor Barrie Vince, to find in this film some evidence of two minds and two talents working together.”

Ideas for future productions in England are slowly emerging.

1960-62 Dept Fine Art, Kings College, Newcastle.

1963-66 Dept Film & TV, the Royal College of Art.

1967 Granada Television; Documentary Team

1968 BBC Television: Documentary Team

Film titles and career:

1964Lambing 16mm B. & W. 26 mins
National Nature Film Festival 1st prize. Broadcast on BBC TV.
Director / editor while at Royal College of Art.